Garment-hanger.



No. 790,112. PATENTED MAY 16, 1905.

M. E. CUMMINGS, DEGD.

T. A. JUDGE, ADMINISTRATOR.

M GARMENT HANGER.

- APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10, 1904. my Z UNITED STATES Patented May 16, 1905. i

I PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL E. CUMMINGS, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS; THOMAS A. JUDGE ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID MICHAEL E. CUMMINGS,

DECEASED.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECLTFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 790,112, dated May 16, 1905. Application filed August 10, 1904;. Serial No. 220,283.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL E. CUMMINGS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of H olyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massach usetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in garment supporters orhangers, and more particularly to devices of the class mentioned which are available for supporting trousers or several thereof in inverted positions and for supporting skirts.

The object of this invention is to provide a hanger which will support the garments evenly and in a manner to measurably take out wrinkles therein, permitting, more especially, trousers to be gently stretched under their own weight, and above all with regard to simplicity and cheapness of construction and with comparative compactness.

The invention consists in parts and appliances formed,combined, and capable of utilization, all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in claims.

The improved hanger is, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as in use for supporting trousers.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a side view and partial section of a portion of the device.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts'in all of the views.

In the drawings, A A represent opposite bracket-like portions of the support arranged to have positions forwardly projecting from a wall or support m for the device, each bracket comprising at its upper part one and in practice and preferably a series of U- shaped or upwardly-open sockets a to receive therewithin and with a binding or constrictive engagement pairs of strips B B, between which the bottom bands of the trousers or the waistband of the skirt may be clamped or held firmly. Each bracket-constituting part,

as shown, is made from a single length of com-,

paratively large wire having a vertical member 10 continued in horizontally arranged series of corrugations, by which the aforementioned sockets a are produced, and, further, obliquely extended in the member 12, returning back to an intermediate part of the member 10 and having a short vertical extremity 12 alongside the member 10 and held to the latter in any suitable manner, as by a clip or keeper 6, and the lower extremity of the member 10 is bent at right angles, as represented at 15, to constitute a stop, which by contacting against the wall maintains the bracket in its proper right-angularly-extended relation, it being perceived that each bracket is adapted to have a hinge-like or swiveling movement in the clips d e, which connect the brackets with the back members O O, which form cross braces or ties for the paired brackets, and which back members have each at opposite ends the vertical terminals ff, above which the aforesaid clips f and e are engaged or to which they are connected. These clips are cross-sectionally oblong, so as to accommodate therewithin the vertical sections 10 10 of the brackets and in such a manner that the brackets may be upwardly swiveled on the lines indicated by y y in Fig. 2, so as to be compactly disposed one in front of the other and both closely against the wall, whereby the appliance is backwell out of the way at times of disuse.

The cross-brace members C O are formed with loops g g, and the upper pair or both pairs of loops are made available for obtaining the support of the garment-hanger at the side of the wall or on a door of a closet by the employment through such loops of screws or nails, screws being represented at t' 7: in Fig. 1. The wire having the sockets a a being more or less resilient, the clamp-strips may therefore be entered within such socket, subject to more or less spring reaction, which so binds them together and against the interposed folded portions of the garment that it will securely hold the latter in its depending position and with no liability of its falling from the hanger.

The trousers preparatory to being hung up inverted are laid evenly Withboth legs together and folded longitudinally on the creaselines. Adjoining the bottom portions of both trouser-legs are placed clamping-strips B B, and the extremities of the latter are crowded into the bracket-sockets.

The garment-hanger constructed and arranged as here shown is capable of receiving and holding a number of pairs of trousers or other garments of various descriptions.

When the device is made and assembled, the parts may be quite compactly folded to occupy a minimum of space to the advantage of the manufacturer, especially when shipping quantities of the hangers, to the manufacturer carrying the hangers, and to the user who may find occasion to'carry the hanger in his traveling-bag.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a garment-hanger, in combination, a pair of oppositely-arranged bracket members comprising upwardly -opening sockets, and garment-clamping strips engageable in the sockets.

2. In a garment-hanger, in combination, a pair of oppositely-arranged bracket members comprising upwardly-opening sockets, having resilient boundaries, and garment-clamping strips engageable in the sockets.

3. In a garment-hanger, in combination, a pair of oppositely-arranged bracket members comprising upwardly-open sockets, a back,

and bracket-uniting, portion, to which the brackets are hinge-connected, and garmentclamping strips engageable in the bracketsockets.

4. In a garment-hanger, in combination, a pair of oppositely-arranged bracket members comprising upwardly-open sockets, a back, and bracket-uniting, portion, to which the brackets are hinge-connected, means for limiting the swinging movements of the brackets in one direction relatively to the back portion, and garment-clamping strips engageable in the bracket-sockets.

5. In a garment-hanger, a pair o1 oppositely-arranged bracket members, eachmade of spring-wire with its upper member made with a series of socket-constituting corrugations for the reception, with binding engagements therein, of pairs of garment-elamping strips substantially as described.

6. In a garment-hanger, the opposite pair of bracket-frames, and a back portion, the latter comprising cross members having vertical, alined portions f f, and the bracketframes comprising vertical sections 10 and horizontal corrugated and socket-constituting portions, the clips (Z and (a connected to the vertical portions ff and encircling the vertical sections 10, and the pairs of clampingstrips B B for intermediately clamping the garment, and for acquiring, by their end portions, crowding engagements in the sockets ol the bracket-frames.

7. In a garment-hanger,the transverse back members C C composed of wire, comprising the vertically-alined terminals f, and one of said members havingloops 1 and the wire bracket-frames comprising vertical sections 10, having the angularly-bent terminals 15, and horizontal corrugated and socket-constituting portions, the clips (Z and a connected to the vertical portions ff and encircling the vertical sections 10, and the pairs of clamping-strips B B for intermediately clamping the garment, and for acquiring, by their end portions, crowding engagements in the sockets of the bracket-frames.

Signed by me at Springfield, l\'Iassachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL E. CUMMINGS.

Witnesses:

WV. S. BELLOWS, G. R. DRISCOLL. 

